Setting- White House 1908 (late in Roosevelt's office)
Jon (Booker and African Americans)
- Protesting Self-reliance - Paid his school tuition by working as a custodian
- Principal of Tuskegee Institute o Trained students to become teachers, farmers, and skilled workers.
- Urged blacks to concentrate on bettering themselves through education and hard work, rather than worrying about immediate suffrage and racial equality
- Washington declared to an all-white audience, "In all things social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington went on to express his confidence that, "No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized [shut out]."
- wanted cooperation with whites opposed to radical tactics favored by du bois.
quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/booker_t_washington.html
- "Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top." look at me, I paid my way through school working as a custodian.
- That's why I choose to cooperate with the white race instead of fight them like my counter-part W.E.B. DuBois
Eric (Vanderbilt and big business)
- Protesting
built his wealth in shipping and railroads
classic rags to riches story
gave $1 million to to a school that would become Vanderbilt University
started off with one sailboat and turned it into one of the largest owners of steamboats by the 1850s
at the age of 70 he turned to railroads and ended up controlling the largest railroad empire in the world
was not well educated
in 1862 gained control of the Harlem Railroad and built the grand central railroad
Paul (Teddy Roosevelt)
- Agrees with sunny, against Vanderbilt, Pro-forest Conservation Campaign
- Brought new lands under federal protection by establishing the U.S. forest service in 1905.
- Convened the first conference of the nations governors to study problems with conservation.
- Made crater lake in Oregon a national park.
- By the time he left office he had tripled the size of the nations forests from 50 million to 150 million acres. Against Monopolies and Trusts
- Known as the "Trust Buster" by busting standard oil company, American Tobacco.
- In 1906 signed the Hepburn Act which gave the ICC expanded powers to regulate the railroad companies.
- His signature new act was the Square Deal which was trying to improve relations and regulations with trusts and monopolies.
- Settled the difference between good trusts and bad monopolies that manipulated their business and crushed weaker opponents. Cleaning up Food Industry
- Signed the pure food and drug act which gave the government power to regulate the meat packing industry and other foods.
""Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm
Sunny (Upton Singclair and Muckrakers)
- Protesting poor meat packing standards
-Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore on 20th September, 1878. His alcoholic father moved the family to New York City in 1888. Although his own family were extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. He later argued that witnessing these extremes turned him into a socialist.
-The Jungle (1906) was an immediate success selling over 150,000 copies. Within the next few years The Jungle had been published in seventeen languages and was a best-seller all over the world.
-After President Theodore Roosevelt read the jungle and ordered an investigation of the meat-packing industry.
-'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it'
-
'|I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.' Upton Sinclair, on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
Anna (Alice Paul and Suffragists)
- Protesting for suffrage
Bibliography
Paul, Alice
Roosevelt, Theodore Lansford, Tom, and Robert P Watson. Therodore Roosevelt. Ed. Robert P Watson.
Florida Atlantic University: n.p., n.d. Print. Very good source of
information talks about teh progressive reforms teddy agrees with.
Theodore Roosevelt Association. "Quotations of Theodore Roosevelt by The Theodore Roosevelt Association." About Theodore Roosevelt: President and more, from The Theodore Roosevelt Association. Web. 23 Feb. 2010.
About Theodore Roosevelt: President and more, from The Theodore Roosevelt Association. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/>.
Jon (Booker and African Americans)
- Protesting
Self-reliance
- Paid his school tuition by working as a custodian
- Principal of Tuskegee Institute
o Trained students to become teachers, farmers, and skilled workers.
- Urged blacks to concentrate on bettering themselves through education and hard work, rather than worrying about immediate suffrage and racial equality
- Washington declared to an all-white audience, "In all things social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington went on to express his confidence that, "No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized [shut out]."
- wanted cooperation with whites opposed to radical tactics favored by du bois.
quotes http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/booker_t_washington.html
- "Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top." look at me, I paid my way through school working as a custodian.
- That's why I choose to cooperate with the white race instead of fight them like my counter-part W.E.B. DuBois
Eric (Vanderbilt and big business)
- Protesting
- built his wealth in shipping and railroads
- classic rags to riches story
- gave $1 million to to a school that would become Vanderbilt University
- started off with one sailboat and turned it into one of the largest owners of steamboats by the 1850s
- at the age of 70 he turned to railroads and ended up controlling the largest railroad empire in the world
- was not well educated
- in 1862 gained control of the Harlem Railroad and built the grand central railroad
- 1871 finished the Grand Central Station
Big businesses- did anything to crush competition
- made as much money as possible
- used the capitalist system to become rich
- usually a rags to riches story
Quote: "If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/cornelius_vanderbilt.html
Paul (Teddy Roosevelt)
- Agrees with sunny, against Vanderbilt, Pro-forest
Conservation Campaign
- Brought new lands under federal protection by establishing the U.S. forest service in 1905.
- Convened the first conference of the nations governors to study problems with conservation.
- Made crater lake in Oregon a national park.
- By the time he left office he had tripled the size of the nations forests from 50 million to 150 million acres.
Against Monopolies and Trusts
- Known as the "Trust Buster" by busting standard oil company, American Tobacco.
- In 1906 signed the Hepburn Act which gave the ICC expanded powers to regulate the railroad companies.
- His signature new act was the Square Deal which was trying to improve relations and regulations with trusts and monopolies.
- Settled the difference between good trusts and bad monopolies that manipulated their business and crushed weaker opponents.
Cleaning up Food Industry
- Signed the pure food and drug act which gave the government power to regulate the meat packing industry and other foods.
""Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm
Sunny (Upton Singclair and Muckrakers)
- Protesting poor meat packing standards
-Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore on 20th September, 1878. His alcoholic father moved the family to New York City in 1888. Although his own family were extremely poor, he spent periods of time living with his wealthy grandparents. He later argued that witnessing these extremes turned him into a socialist.
-The Jungle (1906) was an immediate success selling over 150,000 copies. Within the next few years The Jungle had been published in seventeen languages and was a best-seller all over the world.
-After President Theodore Roosevelt read the jungle and ordered an investigation of the meat-packing industry.
-'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it'
-
'|I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.' Upton Sinclair, on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
Anna (Alice Paul and Suffragists)
- Protesting for suffrage
Bibliography
Paul, Alice
Roosevelt, Theodore
Lansford, Tom, and Robert P Watson. Therodore Roosevelt. Ed. Robert P Watson.
Florida Atlantic University: n.p., n.d. Print. Very good source of
information talks about teh progressive reforms teddy agrees with.
Theodore Roosevelt Association. "Quotations of Theodore Roosevelt by The Theodore Roosevelt Association." About Theodore Roosevelt: President and more, from The Theodore Roosevelt Association. Web. 23 Feb. 2010.
About Theodore Roosevelt: President and more, from The Theodore Roosevelt Association. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/>.
Singclair, Upton
"Upton Sinclair". Social Security History. 2/20/10 http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/sinclair.html.
<upton sinclair". 2/22/10 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
1. Harty, John. "Cornelius Vanderbilt." Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century, Expanded rev. ed. Salem Press, 2007. Salem History. Salem Press. 22 Feb 2010 <http://history.salempress.com/doi/full/10.3331/GL19_3651058711>
2. Gordon, John S. "AmericanHeritage.com / The Life and Syphilis of Cornelius Vanderbilt." American History from AmericanHeritage.com. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20071126-commodore-cornelius-vanderbilt-robber-baron-wall-street-edward-j-renehan-steamboat-railroad-biography.shtml>.
3. "Cornelius Vanderbilt Biography." Biography Base Home. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. <http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Vanderbilt_Cornelius.html>.
Washington, Booker T.
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Brudvig, Jon. Washington, Booker T. (1856?1915). Web. 11 Feb. 2010. <http://www.sharpe-online.com/SOLR/a/searchedContent/4/book004-PART2-article894>.
"Three Visions for African Americans." CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION. CRF, 2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2010. <http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-19-3.html>.